Sir Joseph Banks and the Emperor of Morocco. A tale / By Peter Pindar, Esquire [pseud.] [i.e. John Wolcot].

  • John Wolcot
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sir Joseph Banks and the Emperor of Morocco. A tale / By Peter Pindar, Esquire [pseud.] [i.e. John Wolcot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t *4 ] Yet did no God nor Godling intervene, . ' By way of fcreen! The happy head their pointed fpears defied, i% Strong, like old Homer’s fhields, in tough bull hide, * ~ * ■* ' / And brafs well temper’d, to fupport the fhock !*— The bees their difappointed vengeance mourn’d, And from their fierce attack, fatigu’d, return’d, Believing they had ftorm’d a barber’s block. What was thought death and tortures by the clan, * I u . > ■■ ■• Was only tickling the great Man ! Thus round big Ajax rag’d the Trojan hoft, Who might as well, indeed, have drubb’d a poft. The Gardner now for juft revenge up fprung, O’erwhelm’d with wonderment and dung, -
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